That LA Roux is with the great "Bullet Proof" early July have actually managed to pole position in the British singles chart (the previous album "In For The Kill" scraped just over), was for me a welcome opportunity once again to the reading of The Manual - How To Have a hit One The Easy access to Way by Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty (in the late eighties and early nineties as The Timelords / The KLF themselves permanent guests in the upper reaches of the charts). Although since the release of this timeless classic, the musical modes of production, distribution structures, the compilation of the charts (in the late eighties still based on polls), the carrier media and not least the selling behavior have changed radically - there already is sufficient to compare the number of singles sold, then and now - turn out the observations of the hit machine continues to be as informative and topical. Among other things, namely: A
"All records in the Top Ten (especially those that get to Number One) have far more in common with each other than with whatever genre they have developed from or sprung out of."
Obvious? "Block Rockin 'Beats" by the Chemical Brothers or "Firestarter" by The Prodigy were therefore in the nineties with Steps, S Club 7 Take That and more in common than with Future Sound Of London, Orbital, or 808 State. Likewise, it is also LA Roux with their two hits closer to Kelly Clarkson than Ladytron, The Soho Dolls or ex rental. Or were the UK electroclash imitators simply requires only a few years of their time? With 'Golden Rules' of a knotless number one Drummond and Cauty call the following namely:
"Firstly, it has to have a dance groove that will run all the way through the record and that the current 7-inch-buying generation will find irrestistible. Secondly, it must be no longer than three minutes and thirty seconds. Thirdly, it must Consist of an intro, a verse, a chorus, second verse, a second chorus, a breakdown section, back into a double- length chorus and outro. "The length hits almost exactly to the second and the arrangement is clear that Elly Jackson and Ben Langmaid their homework in terms of number 1 hit did. And those moaners who accuse LA Roux electropop bands like stripes, they are mere nostalgia or unimaginative revivalists, you can respond with Drummond / Cauty:
"Every Number One song ever written is only made up from bits from other songs . There is no lost chord. Untried No changes. No extra notes to the scale or hidden beats to the bar. "
What undoubtedly not only for top 10 hits, but much of popular music's true. In this sense we can be another success for LA Roux wish for: it is not are potential singles on their debut a few. Let them Little Boots, Empire Of The Sun, auto scratch, Bat For Lashes and The Whip at the top followed by 10!
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